Never pick up strangers.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, Zachary Knighton, Neal McDonough, Kyle Davis, Skip O'Brien, Travis Schuldt |
Director |
Dave Meyers |
Screenplay | Eric Red, Jake Wade Wall, Eric Bernt, based on the previous screenplay by Eric Red |
Music | Steve Jablonsky |
Cinematography | James Hawkinshon |
Editing | Jim May |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, DTS |
Made in | 2007 |
Produced by | Intrepid Pictures, Platinum Dunes |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Medium
Sex / Nudity |
Violence |
Blood / Gore / Gross |
Guns / Weapons |
Profanity |
Alcohol / Drugs |
Smoking |
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
Topics to talk about |
Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Munyaradzi vumo Bad plot... dull ending. | 5 | |
Cape Times Anthony Quinn Killer on the road — again. | 1 | |
iAfrica.com Rob Peters The best part about this movie is its running time — a mere hour and 15 minutes. I don't think I would have lasted much longer. | 1 | |
Mail & Guardian Shaun de Waal | 6 | |
The Citizen Peter Feldman Talented actor wasted in soulless remake. | 6 | |
24.com Ivan Sadler For horror fans there is a single inventive death, but for anyone else, this is just tired rubbish. | 1 | |
BBC Anna Smith There's nothing subtle about The Hitcher, but its boundless enthusiasm for genre staples entertains in a silly sort of way. | 5 | |
Box Office Tim Cogshell Remake just about reaches the creepy heights of the original | 8 | |
eye Weekly James Simons A safe slasher flick with predictably unpredictable jolts of excitement, sunny-turned-stormy cinematography, a victim-turned-hero protagonist and a truckload of victims-turned-corpses. | 5 | |
ReelViews James Berardinelli The lesson imparted by the 1986 movie was to avoid hitchhikers. The lesson imparted by the 2007 version is to avoid The Hitcher. | 8 | |
ScreenIt This is an unnecessary, redundant and flatly made remake of the 1986 film of the same name. | 6 | |
Metacritic.com 16 critics | 6 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 83 critics | 8 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Interested in only cheap shocks, and gratuitious gore and torture. | 4 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 7608 Netizens | 11 | |
Average .. 27% | 5 |